Remove packages from local pypi index

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Indrajeet picture Indrajeet · Jun 19, 2014 · Viewed 8.1k times · Source

This is similar to this question with one exception. I want to remove a few specific versions of the package from our local pypi index, which I had uploaded with the following command in the past.

python setup.py sdist upload -r <index_name>

Any ideas?

Answer

Jan Vlcinsky picture Jan Vlcinsky · Jun 19, 2014

Removing packages from local pypi index depends on type of pypi index you use.

removing package from devpi index

devpi allows removing packages only from so called volatile indexes. Non-volatile are "release like" indexes and removing from them is not allowed (as you would surprise users depending on released package).

E.g. for package pysober version 0.2.0:

$ devpi remove -y pysober==0.2.0

removing package from public pypi

is described in the answer you already refered to.

removing package from other indexes

Can vary, but in many cases you can manually delete the files (with proper care).

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